It seems to me that if he had simply talked rationally about this from the start
He is a drama professor, for Christ's sake. While this type of reaction would be not appropriate for an engineer or a nuclear plant operator, for a theater professor it is more like a professional quality. What matters is that he is right, not his reaction.
Nothing the CP did was a terrible fascist crime
Obviously you know very little about what fascism is all about. It all starts by speech suppression. Once the majority population either supports or does not object, those who are still vocal get thrown in jails, executed or just "disappear". After that stage it is an easy reign by an iron fist, with holocaust and genocide and citizens trembling in their hovels, because by then should you try to stick your neck out, someone comes and knocks on your door in the middle of the night. They come to collect your family later.
All of the above can and should be achieved with a de-centralized network of independent nodes (CPU's) that communicate with each other. Right now city traffic management is stuck in the 1950's, something should be done about it, and I don't mean "install traffic light cameras on every friggin intersection" as per Bloomberg.
- One drive can hold 100's of DVDs. No need to meddle with obsolete media.
- You can easily setup backup over network with a HD on another computer, network storage or even an external HD!
- The last and the most important point: Hard Drives double in capacity every year. This means you don't need to keep around many small old HD's and risk that after some years they fail to come to life or the SATA becomes obsolete (i.e. computers that can connect to the old HD are no longer around). Just copy your older, smaller HD's to the one in current use and discard them.
I used this strategy when transferring all my floppies to a CDR a few years back, and repeated the process recently by copying all my CDR's to a HD:) No risk of old media going bad and no need to keep around boxes of it.
Great idea, except for a small problem -- something tells me that under your proposed system doctors are going to be always acquitted.
This might work for one technology company suing another, except I am not sure if they use a jury system for those.
My $100 is that Microsoft is going to offer incentives in form of a discounted Windows 8 distribution license to the manufacturers who do not "let you disable secure boot". Of course, all of these arrangements will stay as a carefully guarded trade secret, only to surface 20 years later during the Microsoft Anti-competitive Practices Trial II of 2031
Yes, as much as you are oblivious about them. Both iPhone and Android phones are sold with carrier's rootkit and a complete suit of malware preinstalled.
I cannot locate the exact article which described how someone hacked and enabled a secret rootkit control menu on an Android phone, complete with screenshot.
There is plenty of other links though. Google "android preinstalled malware".
Well, yes, your wallet is the one targeted in this operation. You will have to pay premium for an inferior system/motherboard just to have the "unlocked boot" -- strike that -- "Not certified for Windows" option. Add some patent royalties on top and suddenly it is more expensive to own a Linux system.
This also solves the problem of those pesky dual-boots: Windows will refuse run on unlocked BIOS computers, citing security issues. Want to run a windows app natively? -- buy a second computer.
Because Windows CE is the most secure Windows CE on the planet! No so much when compared to other platforms, but hey, it's the Government so it has to come from Microsoft!
A golf-ball-sized object at the speed of light would have (.2 kg * 299792458 m/s ^2) / 2 = 9 x10^15 Joules of energy. So, in the "library of congress" units,
1 TNT-Ton = 4E9 Joules.
Detection and destruction of the opponent's drones will be difficult and expensive. Civilians, on the other hand, are juicy walking targets. The war of the future will come down to which side eradicates enemy civilians first. After a brief victory celebration, civilians on the other side will be promptly cleaned up by the drones, still roaming autonomously.
The http://www.darwinawards.com/ pokes fun at deceased idiots on a daily basis. In fact, "dead funny" is the merit for the award. Hopefully they are not located in UK, because judging by the turn of events they all earned capital punishment by now.
P.S.: I do not support the unfortunate troll, but a slap on the wrist would be more than enough in this case.
In online games the "game clock" is synchronized between all participants, so those with faster link or who live closer to the server do not get unfair advantage. How hard would it be to introduce a similar policy on an exchange? introduce some time marks on which transactions can be booked (say, on the minute mark every minute), and introduce some artificial lag to those with 30ms link.
SEC goes out of its way to make sure that all trading is fair and equal opportunity, that no one acts on insider information, etc. Why not this? It will definitely increase liquidity in a world where physics limitation gives an unfair advantage to some participants.
The loss (overhead) already happened when they invested in R&D and established manufacturing pipeline. Selling it for any price at that point would have been profit (before counting overhead, which was gone by then either way). There is no need to let it all go to hell for $99 when it would go like hotcakes for $250.
I live in Manhattan too, but I also DRIVE in Manhattan. The city is plagued by much bigger problems than cars running red light. Let's just say it is not navigable by car: it takes 5 mins to drive one block in the morning, and the rest of the day is not much better. Bike lanes was a great idea, except I need to drive to work. Yellow lights are extremely short, so I frequently find myself slamming brakes as soon as yellow comes up.
- Russia lost two shuttles in 60s and 70th with total 4 crew members lost
- US lost one in 80s and 2000's, with 14 crew members lost.
Based on the more recent nature of US accidents (and massive loss of lives), any insurance carrier will confirm that US missions are riskier (would command higher insurance premiums). Good thing they got discontinued, I guess.
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It seems to me that if he had simply talked rationally about this from the start
He is a drama professor, for Christ's sake. While this type of reaction would be not appropriate for an engineer or a nuclear plant operator, for a theater professor it is more like a professional quality. What matters is that he is right, not his reaction.
Nothing the CP did was a terrible fascist crime
Obviously you know very little about what fascism is all about. It all starts by speech suppression. Once the majority population either supports or does not object, those who are still vocal get thrown in jails, executed or just "disappear". After that stage it is an easy reign by an iron fist, with holocaust and genocide and citizens trembling in their hovels, because by then should you try to stick your neck out, someone comes and knocks on your door in the middle of the night. They come to collect your family later.
Have a nice day.
All of the above can and should be achieved with a de-centralized network of independent nodes (CPU's) that communicate with each other. Right now city traffic management is stuck in the 1950's, something should be done about it, and I don't mean "install traffic light cameras on every friggin intersection" as per Bloomberg.
One Horsepower is the power of a big white dead horse kept at the headquarters of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris
I used this strategy when transferring all my floppies to a CDR a few years back, and repeated the process recently by copying all my CDR's to a HD :) No risk of old media going bad and no need to keep around boxes of it.
Great idea, except for a small problem -- something tells me that under your proposed system doctors are going to be always acquitted.
This might work for one technology company suing another, except I am not sure if they use a jury system for those.
oing to a website that go hacked and so on can lead to a pron site that is hard to get out of.
I think they are thoroughly familiar with he the pron aspect of technology, no further education necessary.
motherboard that lets you disable secure boot
My $100 is that Microsoft is going to offer incentives in form of a discounted Windows 8 distribution license to the manufacturers who do not "let you disable secure boot". Of course, all of these arrangements will stay as a carefully guarded trade secret, only to surface 20 years later during the Microsoft Anti-competitive Practices Trial II of 2031
I cannot locate the exact article which described how someone hacked and enabled a secret rootkit control menu on an Android phone, complete with screenshot.
There is plenty of other links though. Google "android preinstalled malware".
Well, yes, your wallet is the one targeted in this operation. You will have to pay premium for an inferior system/motherboard just to have the "unlocked boot" -- strike that -- "Not certified for Windows" option. Add some patent royalties on top and suddenly it is more expensive to own a Linux system.
This also solves the problem of those pesky dual-boots: Windows will refuse run on unlocked BIOS computers, citing security issues. Want to run a windows app natively? -- buy a second computer.
Hmmm, let's look up the definition:
free mar-ket
noun
An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses
Please enlighten us about the competition part and explain how it works when one "privately owned business" owns 95% of it.
President Obama... if he wants to do secret government business he'll need one of two Windows CE smartphones
Because Windows CE is the most secure Windows CE on the planet! No so much when compared to other platforms, but hey, it's the Government so it has to come from Microsoft!
9 x10^15 (Joules) / 4E9 (Joules/TNT-Ton) = 2 Megaton TNT.
Who needs nukes when you got golfball-sized neutrinos? Btw is CERN still standing?
Simple: you open-source it.
Detection and destruction of the opponent's drones will be difficult and expensive. Civilians, on the other hand, are juicy walking targets. The war of the future will come down to which side eradicates enemy civilians first. After a brief victory celebration, civilians on the other side will be promptly cleaned up by the drones, still roaming autonomously.
The http://www.darwinawards.com/ pokes fun at deceased idiots on a daily basis. In fact, "dead funny" is the merit for the award. Hopefully they are not located in UK, because judging by the turn of events they all earned capital punishment by now.
P.S.: I do not support the unfortunate troll, but a slap on the wrist would be more than enough in this case.
In online games the "game clock" is synchronized between all participants, so those with faster link or who live closer to the server do not get unfair advantage. How hard would it be to introduce a similar policy on an exchange? introduce some time marks on which transactions can be booked (say, on the minute mark every minute), and introduce some artificial lag to those with 30ms link.
SEC goes out of its way to make sure that all trading is fair and equal opportunity, that no one acts on insider information, etc. Why not this? It will definitely increase liquidity in a world where physics limitation gives an unfair advantage to some participants.
I don't quite get it even with the inscription. Is it a directional explosive?
...or a $300 car
1. "Break hard" for no apparent reason one block away from the traffic light
2. Get rear ended
3. Fuel savings!!
The loss (overhead) already happened when they invested in R&D and established manufacturing pipeline. Selling it for any price at that point would have been profit (before counting overhead, which was gone by then either way). There is no need to let it all go to hell for $99 when it would go like hotcakes for $250.
I live in Manhattan too, but I also DRIVE in Manhattan. The city is plagued by much bigger problems than cars running red light. Let's just say it is not navigable by car: it takes 5 mins to drive one block in the morning, and the rest of the day is not much better. Bike lanes was a great idea, except I need to drive to work. Yellow lights are extremely short, so I frequently find myself slamming brakes as soon as yellow comes up.
.... and that's when I installed Linux and never looked back.
- Russia lost two shuttles in 60s and 70th with total 4 crew members lost
- US lost one in 80s and 2000's, with 14 crew members lost.
Based on the more recent nature of US accidents (and massive loss of lives), any insurance carrier will confirm that US missions are riskier (would command higher insurance premiums). Good thing they got discontinued, I guess.
Source: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
I assume you belong to the guys who don't know what ctrl-F is or what ctrl-S does or for what ctrl-W is nor ctrl-Z either?
Sounds like a challenge!